I ordered Desktop Framework motherboard last week and today it arrived. It was neatly packaged and did not come with anything else then some piece of plastic to mount your own fan on top of the radiator. But I did not need much else. At least for first tests.
I had some PSU laying around that was compatible. I have some old fan that I was able connect to board even if it was a bit to small but would cool it a bit at least.
I was able to connect all of it and boot it from the Debian installer.
I had one problem that I did not anticipate: I do not have spare NVMe disk and I could not connect another USB thumb stick that could work as drive – motherboard have only two USB-A connectors and I do not have any hub that I could connect to it. There are also 2 USB-C sockets but I do not have any USB drives that have those connectors. Also I do not have any spare USB wires that I could connect directly to the motherboard – there are 2 sockets for that.
In that case after I booted Debian, installed docker and few other tools and after I tried to run docker on live CD system – it failed – decided that it is better to order some disk and wait for it to arrive.
I managed to buy some cheap outlet 256GB disk NVME disk. With some better fun I bought it for 231PLN (about 63$). That was OK.
I should be here on Thursday and I cannot wait to finally be able to test performance of my AI assistant on this device!